During closing statements, defense attorney Dinaz Akhtar
characterized the state's case against Sabatini – that he beat Ray to death for
drug money – as "nonsense" and lacking in evidence. She argued that Ray's
wallet could not be found on Sabatini, and that the state neglected to ask the
medical examiner how many blows to the head Ray had suffered.

"We brought it out that there were eight to nine blows to
the head – these are facts beyond change," said Akhtar. "(The prosecution) knew
that whoever killed Charles Ray would be covered in blood.

"However, Bob Sabatini had little to no blood on him."

Akhtar described the murder scene as a blood bath, and that
the attacker would be unable to walk away without a massive amount of blood on
his clothes.

"This isn't rocket science; there's no evidence," she said. "The
absence of blood is reasonable doubt.

"We are here for a few spots of blood on a man who was at the
crime scene, and was there for some time."

Akhtar also stated that police never ruled out another
suspect, who nonetheless was never charged in the case. She also pointed out
that a hair found on Ray's left palm failed to match either Ray or Sabatini.

"That, right there, is reasonable doubt," Akhtar repeated.

Cumberland County Assistant Prosecutor Jon Flynn,
representing the state, began his closing argument by quoting his copy of
Sabatini's statement to police days after the murder.

"I think it was drugs, I think it was a robbery," he read. "Not
a lot of people down there with money, and they'll get it any way they can."

Flynn argued that Sabatini was untrustworthy and misled
police in his initial statements that he had not used the phone after 9:30 p.m.
on the night of the homicide, Sept. 13, 2008. However, Flynn said, there are
records stating that Sabatini home phone had made several calls to known drug
dealers in the Fairfield Township area.

"(Sabatini) told police that he hadn't done any drugs in
four to five months," said Flynn. "He's on a fixed income – he's behind on
this, behind on that – and things aren't working out for him.

"He knows what he did; that's why he's not saying anything about
this to police."

Flynn acknowledged that the state has failed to secure the
murder weapon, but dismissed it as unnecessary in the case against Sabatini. He
also argued that Sabatini had ample time to hide Ray's wallet.

"Do no reward him for purposely hiding evidence – the most
obvious pieces of evidence," said Flynn. "He had the night of the murder, the
day after, the day after that and the day he was questioned by police."

Lastly, Flynn addressed the blood found on Sabatini's shirt,
arguing that the amount detected on the tank top is irrelevant.

"The blood in this trial is speaking loud and clear – and it
is there," he said. "That is (Ray's) blood on that shirt.

"The man who was wearing that tank top is the man who killed
Charles Ray, and we know who that is."